La cabaña del Tio Tom;
Mexico City: Editores Mexicanos Unidos, 1982. Paperback. 297p., later printing, wraps. Spanish language translation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Coleccion Literaria Universal. More
Cat.No: 68539
Abolitionism
Restoration and peace! national union celebration at Union Square, Monday, September 17, 1866, the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution.
New York: for the Committee by Baptist & Taylor, Book and Job Printers, 1866. 24p., sewn signature in paste-fastened pinkish self-wraps, titling in different fonts with wood-engraved device (eagle perched on grasped hands), 9x5.7 inches. Original thread present and well-preserved, no foxing, dust-soiled covers, mildest edgewear and pressure marks, old..... More
Cat.No: 174851
Copaganda: Why The Constitution Doesn't Apply to You
[Charleston, SC]: Amanda Mission Publishing Ink Alternative Press, 2011. Paperback. 200p., shelfworn pictorial wraps, else in good condition. More
Cat.No: 277065
Pinin' for dat' freedom day
New York: Chappell-Harms, Inc., 1930. Sheet_music. [6p., of music notation], 9x12 inches; blue pictorial wrappers, unevenly toned, small pencil notation o nfront cover, else in very good condition. Chicago-born film composer. More
Cat.No: 282118
William Jay and the constitutional movement for the abolition of slavery, with a preface by John Jay
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1893. Hardcover. xiii, 185p. + six plates, first edition, front hinge weakening, title page/copyright page has completely seperated from text block, former owner's signature and date (1905) written in pencil on first front endpage. More
Cat.No: 101368
The trials of Anthony Burns; freedom and slavery in Emerson's Boston
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. Hardcover. xix, 409p., first printing, hardcover with boards and unclipped dj mildly bumped at upper corners, else very good. More
Cat.No: 95721
A sketch and an appreciation of Moncure Daniel Conway, freethinker and humanitarian. An address at the Paine-Conway memorial meeting of the Manhattan Liberal Club, January 31, 1908
New York: Published by Edwin C. Walker, 1908. Paperback. 55p., wraps, 5.25x7.75 inches, wraps slightly soiled with minor chipping on the edges else very good condition. Walker was associated with Moses Harman, freethought & anarchist circles. In 1886 he served 75 days in prison for entering into a "free marriage"..... More
Cat.No: 12433
Moral Choices; memory, desire, and imagination in nineteenth-century American abolition
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978. Hardcover. xxii, 387p., first printing. very good orange cloth boards in dj with some edge wear and minor fading to spine. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. More
Cat.No: 2287
The antislavery appeal; American abolitionism after 1830
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Hardcover. xvii, 196p, 1st printing. very good in a bit soiled and rubbed dj. More
Cat.No: 66967
Slavery and British society, 1776-1846
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Hardcover. 272p., introduction, notes and references, contributors notes, index, figures, very good first printing, dj. More
Cat.No: 72913
Speeches of Messrs. Weller, Orr, Lane, and Cobb, delivered in Phoenix and Depot Halls, Concord, N.H. : at a mass meeting of the Democratic Party of Merrimac County. [7 February 1856]
npl: npub, [1852]. Pamphlet. 32p, 6 x 9.5 inches, alkaline paper reasonably well preserved, spine abraded, tops and fore-edges cut neatly, first page dust soiled, pencil markings infrequently appear (pp. 8.17, and 32) and Weller's name underlined on first page, numerals noted in pencil on first page. Speeches given at..... More
Cat.No: 173335
Dear Preceptor; the life and times of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. Hardcover. ix, 363p., front., first printing, slightly worn dj. Higginson was an advocate and preceptor of Emily Dickinson. More
Cat.No: 118385
Freedom on the mountains. (Excerpts from a book manuscript on southern mountain history)
Huntington, WV: Appalachian Press, 1976. Pamphlet. 30p., wraps with minor creasing and two minor stains on the front wrap else good condition, 5.5x8.5 inches. Second printing. First published in 1973. More
Cat.No: 69080
American statesmen on slavery and the Negro
New Rochelle: Arlington House, 1971. Hardcover. 448p., very good hardcover in a price-clipped and edgeworn dust jacket. The conservative European American authors have drawn on a significant corpus of radical and liberal scholarship for their presentation. More
Cat.No: 9178
Jacob Lawrence: the Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman series of 1938-40
Hampton, VA: Hampton University Museum in association with University of Washington Press, 1991. Oversized Paperback. 127p., profusely illustrated, 10x9 inch wraps; still in publisher's shrinkwrap,in very good condition. Nice reproduction of full-color paintings. More
Cat.No: 112410
Stories of freedom in black New York
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002. Hardcover. xxix, 278p., first printing, dj. Very good. More
Cat.No: 108066
Slavery agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832; awarded the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Prize for 1929
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. Hardcover. viii, 162p., ex library, embossed stamp on title page, else no library-markings. More
Cat.No: 72782
Slavery agitation in Virginia, 1829-1832; awarded the Mrs. Simon Baruch University Prize for 1929
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1930. Hardcover. viii, 162p. A bright, very good copy, something inked over agressively on front free endpaper near top, hinge starting. More
Cat.No: 114689
The anti-slavery cause in America and its martyrs
Westport: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Hardcover. vii, 168p., reprint of 1863 edition, cloth boards, no dj, very good. More
Cat.No: 47398
Brazil and Britain: conflict 1863-1865
[Berkeley]: the author, n. d. ii, 90p., 8.5x11 inches, reproduced from typescript, copyshop binding, slightly foxed wraps. Graduate paper by the African American historian. More
Cat.No: 124425
On freedom's altar; the martyr complex in the abolition movement
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1952. Hardcover. xii, 195p., illus., first printing. Top page edges dust soiled. Rubbed, soiled and edgeworn dj. More
Cat.No: 2331
Southern sketches; Republican newspapers of South Carolina
Charlottesville, VA: The Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1936. 60p., staplebound 10x6 inch plain printed wraps, the "yapp" (overlapping) cover edges are quite edgeworn with several gaps, textblock has a tiny bump. Number 10, first series. General editor J. D. Eggleston. More
Cat.No: 154709
The underground railroad in New Jersey
Newark: WPA, 1939. Pamphlet. 6p., 8.5x11 inches, wraps, a few small rust stains on front wrap else very good condition. Stories of New Jersey, bulletin #9, 1939-40 series. More
Cat.No: 69266
Perforations in the Latter-day pamphlets. No. I, Universal suffrage, capital punishment, slavery, by one of the 'eighteen millions of bores'
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1850. 48p., self-wraps, disbound, minor browning, corners torn off of a couple of pages, rear blank detached and chipped. Wright, a mathematician and insurance actuary, was a prominent activist and publisher in the abolitionist movement and was part of the abolitionist strain that saw secret..... More
Cat.No: 142605